Go Behind-The-Scenes Of Eric Prydz’s Epic 4.0 Live Show
While Deadmau5 had his cube, Eric Prydz had EPIC. EPIC was essentially a four dimensional cube made of an incredible LED lightshow. With three earlier versions of Eric Prydz’s EPIC stage, Prydz tooks things to another level with his newest version of the stage.
Now Eric Prydz has revealed a brand new Documentary outlining his EPIC 4.0 bus tour where it shows his journey from Los Angeles to New York. During the documentary from Mashable, Eric Prydz opens up on working on new music and his views on vocals in tracks.
For anyone who’s followed Prydz’s career, EPIC has always been more than just a flashy stage prop. It started as a way to give his sets a visual identity that matched the scale of his productions, and each version has pushed the technology further, more LED panels, sharper visuals, more precise synchronization with the music. By the time EPIC 4.0 rolled around, it had evolved into a genuinely massive production, the kind of set piece that requires its own fleet of trucks and a small army of technicians just to get it built and running night after night.
That’s part of what makes the Mashable documentary worth watching. Touring a rig this complex across the country isn’t as simple as loading up a van and driving, and the behind-the-scenes footage gives fans a real sense of the logistics involved in hauling a four-dimensional LED cube from city to city on a bus tour. It’s a side of the production most people never think about when they’re standing in a crowd watching the lights sync up to the drop.
The interview portions are just as interesting. Prydz has always been fairly guarded about his creative process, so hearing him talk candidly about how he approaches new music, and specifically his stance on vocals, gives some insight into why his tracks tend to favor atmosphere and progression over big pop hooks. It’s a perspective that’s helped him stand apart from a lot of his peers in the progressive house scene, even as EPIC itself has become one of the most recognizable stage productions in all of dance music.
It’s also a useful comparison point next to Deadmau5’s cube. Both artists built their live shows around a single, unmistakable visual centerpiece rather than relying purely on pyrotechnics or a rotating cast of guest performers, and both have kept upgrading that centerpiece over the years rather than scrapping it for something new. EPIC’s four-dimensional design gives Prydz’s team a lot more to work with visually than a static cube, letting the whole structure shift shape and depth throughout a set, which is exactly the kind of detail that gets lost unless you see the rig up close, on the ground, being loaded on and off a truck between cities.
Watch the exclusive look of Eric Prydz’s Epic 4.0 live show in the video below:
